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by lb1lf 7mo ago
I had a stroke of luck this week - I am due a new laptop at work, and ordered a new ThinkPad T14, as they have served me well in the past. Then IT calls back and says that I shouldn't configure one directly at Lenovo's website, as
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by lb1lf 7mo ago
Anyone who would happen to come across it is likely to be suspicious of its origin and purpose, though. I happen to drop equipment into the sea for a living on occasion, and we always paint it in garish yellow for visibility and label it cl
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by lb1lf 7mo ago
LB1LF here - much to my dismay, I currently have no antennas at home, but I take part in the IARU Region 1 Field Day every year - some friends and I, alumni from the Norwegian University of Technology and Science in Trondheim, Norway create
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by lb1lf 8mo ago
Around where I live, we have electric car ferries. To avoid having to upgrade the grid massively, we use large battery banks shoreside which are being charged at a sustainable (to the grid) rate, then the ferry charges rapidly by depleting
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Japan says it found rare earth in sediment retrieved on deep-sea mission(japantimes.co.jp)
3 points by lb1lf 8mo ago|0 comments
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by lb1lf 9mo ago
This ship will be my home for the next month - my employer has delivered the system used for launch and recovery of the ROV submersible which will be used for monitoring the drilling progress. Just like being at war - long periods of absolu
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Japan sets sail on rare earth hunt as China tightens supplies(asahi.com)
2 points by lb1lf 9mo ago|1 comments
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by lb1lf 9mo ago
Perhaps it is just a Special Military Operation?
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by lb1lf 9mo ago
Happy new year indeed! Still some five hours to go here in Norway, but it has been dark outside for a few hours already. Dinner is just about ready, friends pouring in the doors as we speak and as for fireworks, seeing as we live quite rura
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by lb1lf 9mo ago
The (immediate) area has been farmed for hundreds of years, so I would guess most old burial mounds etc has been recycled centuries ago. The houses there now are mostly built in the seventies, at which point (luckily!) the local council wou
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by lb1lf 9mo ago
I prefer to think of it as 'battle tested'.
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by lb1lf 10mo ago
It is until you try to build something! (Nothing quite like watching an archeologist go 'Oooh, that's interesting!' during a dig to establish whether you can go ahead building on your chosen spot...)
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by lb1lf 10mo ago
Oh, he works for the county, but happened to live just up the hill from us. There's so much old stuff around here that he is basically being called out to perform an assessment every time anyone wishes to build anything. Where we live
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by lb1lf 10mo ago
These are all over the place in Norway (as are they everywhere else, presumably!) When we moved to the island we currently live on, our address was in a road called 'Solsteinen' (The Sun Stone), but I didn't think anything of
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by lb1lf 10mo ago
January 2009. I'd been (reluctantly) going to Mozambique for a service job on a vessel, reluctantly as my grandmother was rather worse for wear and I feared she was nearing the end. She urged me to go, though, and to tell her all about
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by lb1lf 10mo ago
Do keep in mind 96 dB is only the theoretical dynamic range of the CD medium, 99% of recordings utilize way less. (Besides, you'd be in pain if you cranked up the volume until you had 96dB of range above your hearing threshold, anyway)
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by lb1lf 10mo ago
That depends on what the source of your heating is. Say, in Norway we largely use (hydro-) electric power for heating, anyway. So, the 2% efficient (for lighting) incandescent bulb doubles as a 98% efficient space heater, utilizing the 2% l
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by lb1lf 11mo ago
A blockade need not be enforced in situ. Say, with satellite coverage to find out where any blockade runners are and a lot of cruise missiles you could enforce a blockade from a thousand miles away.
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by lb1lf 11mo ago
That is a fair point, but do keep in mind that the lower in the stack you come, the more options for sourcing you (generally) have. Say, those fancy chips going into the ship's targeting radar may all be designed in a country or two, f
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by lb1lf 11mo ago
If this kind of thing interests you, you could do a lot worse than picking up Edwin Black's 'IBM and the Holocaust'. Turns out IBM had a rather... Uh, pragmatic attitude towards the uses the nazi regime found for IBM equipmen
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by lb1lf 11mo ago
At least the commercial ones I've been using on and off do not have a drying cycle at the end of the program; they just steam the heck out of whatever is inside, then once the cycle is through, you are expected to remove the tray with
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by lb1lf 1y ago
After the small-ish company I worked for was bought by $ENGINEERING_MEGACORP, an integration program was promptly launched, during which numerous committees were formed to evaluate all business processes and take the best parts of both com
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by lb1lf 1y ago
This is one of the most absurd facts there is. Back in the eighties when CDs were introduced, they were NOK 165 a piece for a new release. Last time I dropped by my friendly neighbourhood dealer (of music, that is), the CD rack said CDs wer
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by lb1lf 1y ago
The nominations for this year's prize closed January 31st; anyone doing anything worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize after that date may be considered for next year.
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by lb1lf 1y ago
I do not know if this was the rationale, but presumably the powers that be could not see any upside to civilians possessing such equipment - after all, it could be used for purposes like calling the bluff on the official narrative ('Du
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by lb1lf 1y ago
Anecdotally, I came across a large (for a single user) quantity of diesel 9 years ago. (Nothing exotic - a company went titsup and I was the only one both bidding for and capable of removing the diesel from their premises within an acceptab
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by lb1lf 1y ago
Oh, I am saddened to hear of Peterson's passing. Way back when, I bought a couple of his books, probably on the recommendation of someone or other in an online photography forum - 'Understanding Exposure' and 'Learning t
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by lb1lf 1y ago
De Atramentis, too, has a range of permanent inks which are quite fast-drying, too. Happy customer for years.
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by lb1lf 1y ago
Back in the day when the Internet was still full of whimsy, the computer club at my alma mater had acquired nuts.edu. I still have a T-shirt somewhere proudly sporting the domain name under the NTNU (Norwegian abbreviation for Norwegian Uni
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by lb1lf 1y ago
Tom Lehrer has been my go-to source of acerbic wit and brilliant satire since I first encountered him when attending the Norwegian University of Tecnology and Science; a group I joined there held Lehrer in high esteem and I, too, was blown

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